1949. Photo by Unkown.
Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin. 1949.
On the picture, you see a 1949 portrait of young Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. It seems like the two communist leaders are posing for the photo. Although Stalin and Lenin's photographs separately are real, these two images are taken from different occasions and photoshopped together by Propagandists. Thus making it a fake photo. This image was reported as fake by The Guardian. Although it is unknown from where did the photo emerge, it is believed to be altered by the Soviet photo-engineers, who used photographic tricks to rewrite history and add or deleted inconvenient/convent figures from the history.
Typology
As it is clear that the photo was manipulated, this photo can be categorized under the typology of photo manipulation.